A J Kitt

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
- A J Kitt

Galileo Galilei

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language ... without whos.
- Galileo Galilei

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Buddha

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- Buddha

Tao Te Ching

The Master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is open as the sky.
- Tao Te Ching

Nancy Astor

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
- Nancy Astor

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
- Edmund Burke

Thomas Edison

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off.
- Thomas Edison

Douglas Adams

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”
- Douglas Adams

George Washington Carver

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

Paul Fix

"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."
- Paul Fix

Garry Shandling

"I have such poor vision I can date anybody."
- Garry Shandling

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

James Madison

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
- James Madison

Allan K. Chalmers

“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
- Allan K. Chalmers (1759 - 1834)

Walt Whitman

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before leading wherever I choose.
- Walt Whitman

Winston Churchill

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics - many times.
- Winston Churchill

Stephen Grover Cleveland

A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out.
- Stephen Grover Cleveland

Blaise Pascal

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
- Blaise Pascal

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 - 2001)

Zachery Taylor

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
- Zachery Taylor

C. S. Lewis

...art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
- C. S. Lewis

Proverb

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
- Proverb

George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- George Bernard Shaw

Ambrose Bierce

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Ambrose Bierce

H. L. Mencken

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken

Dr. Seuss

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)

Oscar Wilde

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
- Oscar Wilde

Mahatma Gandhi

A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Mark Twain

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain